
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as "the best actress of her generation", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning eight. She has also received two British Academy Film Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and six Grammy Awards.
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2026 The Magicians Nephew as Aslan
2026 The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Miranda Priestly
2025 Mamma Mia! 3 as Donna Sheridan
2025 Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep
2025 SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
2025 Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
2024 Schindler Space Architect as Narrator (voice)
2024 Escape from Extinction: Rewilding as Narrator (voice)
2022 Sell/Buy/Date Executive Producer
2021 Don't Look Up as President Orlean
2021 Dear Elizabeth as Elizabeth Bishop
2021 Stanislavski: Lust for Life as Self
2020 Let Them All Talk as Alice Hughes
2020 The Prom as Dee Dee Allen
2020 In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Meryl Streep
2020 Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2020 Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth as Narrator (voice)
2019 Little Women as Aunt March
2019 Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
2019 The Laundromat as Ellen Martin / Elena
2019 Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage as Self (archive footage)
2019 This Changes Everything as Self
2019 Museum Town as Narrator (voice)
2018 Mary Poppins Returns as Cousin Topsy
2018 We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World as Self
2018 Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
2018 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Donna Sheridan-Carmichael
2018 Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary as Narrator (voice)
2018 Every Act of Life as Maurine McElroy (voice)
2017 The Post as Kay Graham
2017 The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2017 Five Came Back as Narrator (voice)
2017 The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits as Self
2017 100 Years as Narrator (voice)
2016 Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray as Elizabeth Murray (voice)
2016 Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
2016 Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
2015 Suffragette as Emmeline Pankhurst
2015 Shout Gladi Gladi as Narrator (voice)
2015 Everything Is Copy as Self
2015 Emotional Uncertainties as Self Thanks
2015 Ricki and the Flash as Ricki Rendazzo
2015 Auschwitz as Narrator (voice)
2014 Into the Woods as Witch
2014 The Concert for Valor as Self
2014 The Giver as Chief Elder
2014 The Homesman as Altha Carter
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013 August: Osage County as Violet Weston
2013 Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
2013 Girl Rising as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)
2013 A Fierce Green Fire as Narrator (voice)
2012 Radioman as Self
2012 Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2012 Hope Springs as Kay
2012 Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self
2012 To the Arctic 3D as Narrator
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011 The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
2011 Wings of Life as Narrator (voice)
2010 Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life as Jennie
2010 Sky Island as (voice)
2009 It's Complicated as Jane Adler
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox as Felicity Fox (voice)
2009 Julie & Julia as Julia Child
2009 Doubt: Stage to Screen as Self
2009 I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
2008 Birthing Mamma Mia! as Self
2008 Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2008 Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan
2008 An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' as Self
2008 Theater of War as Self
2008 Dark Matter as Joanna Silver
2008 Ribbon of Sand as Narrator (voice)
2007 Lions for Lambs as Janine Roth
2007 Rendition as Corrine Whitman
2007 Evening as Lila Ross
2006 Hurricane on the Bayou as Narrator (voice)
2006 The Ant Bully as Queen (voice)
2006 The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly
2006 A Prairie Home Companion as Yolanda Johnson
2006 The Music of Regret as The Woman
2006 Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
2005 Stolen Childhoods as Narrator (voice)
2005 Karen Blixen: Out of This World as Self - Host
2005 Prime as Lisa Metzger
2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Josephine Anwhistle
2004 The Manchurian Candidate as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
2004 Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen as Self
2003 Stuck on You as Meryl Streep (uncredited)
2002 The Hours as Clarissa Vaughan
2002 Adaptation. as Susan Orlean
2002 New York at the Movies as Narrator (voice)
2002 There's Only One Paul McCartney as Self
2001 Vermeer Master of Light as Narrator (voice)
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Blue Mecha (voice)
2001 Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' as Self
2000 A Song of Africa as Self
1999 Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait as Narrator (voice)
1999 Music of the Heart as Roberta
1999 Chrysanthemum as Narrator (voice)
1998 One True Thing as Kate Gulden
1998 Dancing at Lughnasa as Kate Mundy
1997 ...First Do No Harm as Lori Reimuller Executive Producer
1996 Marvin's Room as Lee Wakefield Lacker
1996 Before and After as Carolyn Ryan
1995 The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
1995 The Living Sea as Narrator (voice)
1994 The River Wild as Gail Hartman
1994 An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet as Self - Host
1993 The House of the Spirits as Clara del Valle Trueba
1992 Death Becomes Her as Madeline Ashton Menville
1991 Age 7 in America as Narrator (voice)
1991 Defending Your Life as Julia
1991 Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
1990 Postcards from the Edge as Suzanne Vale
1990 The Earth Day Special as Concerned Citizen
1989 She-Devil as Mary Fisher
1988 Evil Angels as Lindy Chamberlain
1987 Ironweed as Helen Archer
1986 Heartburn as Rachel
1985 Out of Africa as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
1985 Plenty as Susan Traherne
1984 Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)
1984 Falling in Love as Molly Gilmore
1983 Silkwood as Karen Silkwood
1982 Sophie's Choice as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski
1982 Still of the Night as Brooke Reynolds
1982 Alice at the Palace as Alice
1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah / Anna
1981 Kiss Me, Petruchio as Katherine
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
1979 The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Karen Traynor
1979 Uncommon Women and Others as Leilah
1979 Manhattan as Jill
1978 The Deer Hunter as Linda
1977 Julia as Anne Marie
1977 The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller
1977 Secret Service as Edith Varney
1975 Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)
7.74 War 3
7.06 TV Movie 12
7.06 Animation 8
6.89 Music 8
6.89 Science Fiction 3
6.82 Family 8
6.76 History 11
6.75 Romance 22
6.63 Drama 57
6.50 Western 1
6.49 Fantasy 8
6.48 Documentary 46
6.48 Adventure 7
6.41 Comedy 33
6.41 Thriller 6
6.30 Horror 2
6.20 Mystery 2
6.11 Crime 5
6.01 Action 1